Aikidogamer:RexTalionis: Ashley Judd is a Phi Beta Kappa scholar (woot). She has a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University. She's the global ambassador for the YouthAIDS NGO and is on the leadership board of the International Center for Research on Women.

So, she is a sorority girl, and that is supposed to make me want to vote for her?

Wikipedia: The Phi Beta Kappa Society, an academic honor society in the United States, has 280 chapters. It aims to promote and advocate excellence in the liberal arts and sciences, and induct the most outstanding students of arts and sciences at American colleges and universities.[1] Founded at The College of William and Mary on December 5, 1776, as the first collegiate Greek-letter fraternity, it is also the oldest honor society for the liberal arts and sciences and among the oldest undergraduate societies in the United States.[2] Phi Beta Kappa (ΦΒΚ) stands for Φιλοσοφία Βίου Κυβερνήτης or philosophia biou kybernētēs - "Love of learning is the guide of life".[3][4]

RexTalionis:Ashley Judd is a Phi Beta Kappa scholar (woot). She has a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University. She's the global ambassador for the YouthAIDS NGO and is on the leadership board of the International Center for Research on Women.

imontheinternet:coeyagi: SuperNinjaToad: Lost Thought 00: No. Senators rarely get elected without prior political experience, and when they do they usually suck because they don't know how to work the system

you are absolutely 100% correct which is why the system is broke! Mitch absolutely knows how to work the system and to me that is what is sucky and not vice versa.

Unlike you, to me a senator who knows how to manipulate and 'work' the system is actually a negative not a positive.

I am kinda in the middle. Mitch knows the system which means he knows how to persuade people to do his bidding. i.e., commit evil acts upon the American people, like what he's done in blocking Obama the past 4 years. But he got his insidious plan sorta done. Will anyone respect Ashley? Will she need to buy knee pads to get shiat done in the Senate? I mean, she won't be committing evil acts like McConnell, but will she be getting anything done?

A prolific serial killer technically "gets things done" and "is effective." That doesn't mean we wouldn't be better off with a less effective serial killer or better yet, somebody that doesn't kill people at all.

Hey, I am in no way favoring another 6 years of the Not-so-Teenage Not-so-Ninja Turtle. He is a blight on Kentucky, the United States and Humanity. Ashley doing no good is better than McConnell doing massive amounts of harm.

Cythraul:And she's qualified, how? I guess if Arnold and Ronald can do it, why not her?

I thought the only qualification required, apart from the aforementioned constitutional requirements, was being able to vote the party line (or to occasionally transcend party boundaries to vote yourself a raise).